E-mails stolen in a phishing attack on a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin were manipulated before being published on the Internet. That’s according to a report published Thursday, whoch also asserts that the e-mails were manipulated in order to discredit a steady stream of unfavorable articles.FURTHER READINGRussia-linked phishing campaign behind the DNC breach also hit Podesta, PowellThe phishing attack on journalist David Satter’s Gmail account was strikingly similar to the one that hit Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta last year. The attack on Satter looked almost identical to the security warnings Google sends when attackers obtain a subscriber’s password. Code embedded inside led Satter to a credential-harvesting site that was disguised to look like Google’s password-reset page. With that, the site automatically downloaded all of Satter’s private correspondence.
Källa: E-mails phished from Russian critic were tainted before being leaked | Ars Technica
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